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E. BUOKLEY.

LOOM FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF TUPTED PILB FABRICS.

No. 393,458. Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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LOOM'ZE'OR THE MANUFACTURE OF TUFTED PILE FABRICS. No. 393,458. 7Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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UN TED STATES PATENT Orrrcae EDWIN BUGKLEY, OF DURHAM, COUNTY OF DURHAM,ENGLAND.

LOOM FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF TUFTED PILE FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,458, dated November27, 1888.

Application filed July 26, 1886. Serial No. 209,092. (No model.)Patented in England October 15, 1885, No. 12,289.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN BUOKLEY, loomtuner, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, residing at John street, in the city of Durham, in thecounty of Durham, England, have invented or discovered certain new anduseful Improvements in Looms for the Menu facture of Tufted PileFabrics, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No.12,289, dated October 15, 1885,) of which the following is aspecification.

These improvements have reference to that description of looms forweaving carpets known as tufted or tufted pile carpets or AX- minstertufted carpets, and such like tufted pile fabrics, and for improvementsin which Letters Patent of Great Britain were granted to SamuelHoldsworth on July 11, 1872, No. 2,095, and July 21, 1875, No. 2,595.

The present invention has more particular reference to the means forsupplying threads or yarn to the needles in the needle-frames employedfor forming the rows of tufts across the fabrics'in the manufacture ofsuch carpets and fabrics.

In the said specification of Patent No. 2,095 of l872,aforementioned,bobbins are described and shown for the supply of the yarns of thedesired colors; but according to the present invention the yarns areheld by and supplied from small cops or spools inserted in smallapertures of suitable shape provided at or in the lower wooden or otherportion of the frame, and are arranged in relation to each other and tothe respective needles or instruments to be supplied, so as mostconveniently to preserve directness of delivery. These improved means ofsupplying thread or yarn to the needles employed in forming the tufts oftufted pile fabrics enable me to effect the working of such tufts fromseparate threads carried each independently of the others in sep arateindependent carriers, and so that each thread in its carrier can beattached or detached without interfering with the rest and freshsupplies or other colors substituted.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents aplan of a portion of a frame andits cops; Fig. 2, a cross-section; Fig. 3, the like arrangement withFig. 2, with the cops or spools held by pins; Fig. 4, a side view, andFig. 5 an end view,of one of the springs.

The frame h has a number of independent cops or spools, h, which arehere shown inserted each in one of the separate small apertures,ofcorresponding shape and size, if, from which cops or spools h thethreads or yarn separately and independently, as indicated by the dottedlines, are supplied to the individual needles h.

In Fig. 2 the bars 2 and frame are seen in crosssection.

2' i are bars running across from side to side of the series of cops orspools h and serving to hold them in place during working,these barshaving springs j and a cross-piece, k, at each end of the frame toretain them. Each crossbar is provided with slots k, in which the endsof the bars 1' work, these bars 2' being pressed together in pairs bythe springs j, in order to keep the cops h in place. By removing thesprings j the cops h can be replaced. The springs j are held inapertures h in the frame h.

As the spools and the apertures forholding them are, as shown in Fig. 1,arranged in diagonal lines or rows in the frame, the crosssection, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3, necessarily cuts through only a few of theseapertures and shows less and less of each next adjacent one, and theremainder of the frame in such section appears as solid.

The variations in character of dotted lines indicating the threads oryarns also indicate Variations of color thereto and their relativearrangement as an instance, but of course this will vary with variationof pattern; or, in place of the previous arrangement, the yarns may, asshown by Fig. 3, be supplied from cops or spools h, held by pins orspindles h, attached and provided at or in the lower wooden or otherportion of the frame h and suitably arranged, as in the first'describedconstruction, as to the relative spools and needles supplied thereby.

I claim 1. In a loom for weaving tufted fabrics, the combination,withthe series of pile-th read needles, of a frame having a series ofrecesses therein, arranged substantially as shown,each

recess being adopted for holding one of the In testimony whereof I, thesaid EDWIN cops or spools,as and for the purposes set forth. BUCKLEY,have hereunto set my hand,this 10th 2. In combination with the series ofneedles day of J nly, 1886.

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forth. A. S. GRAY.

